Basalt (Nyrïach Book, #1)

Most freshman only have to worry about getting to class on time and keeping their heads down. Most freshman don't find out that their best friend of many years has suddenly disappeared off the face of the earth, worry about crushing on said best friend's girlfriend, narrowly escape being murdered, or question their sanity when voices start talking in their head. But Colin Basalt is not most freshman.

Over the next few months, Colin's about to discover exactly how crazy life can get, and realize how many impossible things are possible after all. What he always thought of as fiction - including a building with a devious mind of its own, three shape-changing assassins, and dangerous parallel realities plagued by war - is actually part of an ancient inheritance he and his friends are doomed to accept.

And that's only the half of it; as Colin will soon learn, there's a disturbing amount of truth in "ignorance is bliss", and a simpler life doesn't necessarily mean a safer one...